Alibaba's Tmall and Taobao sites already sell everything from clothes and furniture to car tires and medicines. But soon they'll also be offering 3G data and voice call plans as well, the Chinese e-commerce giant said Thursday. read more
About 2.6 million payment cards at Michaels Stores and another 400,000 at subsidiary Aaron Brothers may have been affected in a card skimming attack that compromised its point-of-sale systems, the retailer said Thursday. read more
Google has expanded its Project Loon tests to the Nevada desert and, for the first time, into licensed radio spectrum. …
Advanced Micro Devices’ bottom line changed from black to red on Thursday when the company posted a loss after two straight quarters of profits. …
Five music labels have filed a lawsuit against streaming music service Pandora Music, saying the company is violating state law by refusing to pay labels and artists for its use of recordings made before 1972. …
Google did little during its first-quarter earnings report to shush critics who say its Enterprise unit is a second-class citizen in its kingdom. …
National security may be at stake as private businesses try to manage a growing number of cyberthreats, but IT professionals shouldn't have to bear that burden alone. read more
Google has expanded its Project Loon tests to the Nevada desert and, for the first time, into licensed radio spectrum. read more
Google did little during its first-quarter earnings report to shush critics who say its Enterprise unit is a second-class citizen in its kingdom. read more
Samsung is partnering with chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries to increase the supply of low-power, high-speed chips for smartphones and tablets. read more
This week on World Tech Update, Google confirmed its acquisition of drone maker Titan Aerospace, a move poised to advance delivery of the company's data services and mapping applications. read more
Five music labels have filed a lawsuit against streaming music service Pandora Music, saying the company is violating state law by refusing to pay labels and artists for its use of recordings made before 1972. read more
Southern California Edison is outsourcing part of its IT operations, and the jobs may be going overseas. …
Advanced Micro Devices' bottom line changed from black to red on Thursday when the company posted a loss after two straight quarters of profits. read more
Worried about how the Heartbleed vulnerability may affect your personal accounts? A new tool may be of help. read more
Worried about how the Heartbleed vulnerability may affect your personal accounts? A new tool may be of help. …
Microsoft’s new updating “normal” for Windows — a faster-paced tempo that demands customers apply releases within weeks — is a first step in moving the OS to a services-style model. But companies may be leery of the change. …
Cloud services can help CIOs free themselves from worrying about managing data centers, scaling capacity, configuring servers, applying security patches and other routine maintenance so they can focus on providing insight to improve the business. …
Red Hat has successfully grown Linux into an enterprise platform, now it's looking to do the same with OpenStack read more
Facebook now has its own take on location sharing — an optional feature that periodically broadcasts people's locations to their friends. read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that on Tuesday it filed charges against the Massachusetts-based operators of a large pyramid scheme that mainly targeted Dominican and Brazilian immigrants in the U.S. The charges were filed under seal, in connection with the Commission’s request for an immediate asset freeze. That …
8 апреля, как и обещалось, была прекращена техническая поддержка операционной системы Windows XP и выпуск обновлений для нее. Однако, поскольку “операционкой” пользуются больше четверти компьютеров с доступом в Интернет, перед многими организациями встал вопрос о продлении защиты, даже если она платная. Ее купили, например, Великобритания и Нидерланды. Согласно источникам портала computerworld.com, …
I guess there is truth in the saying that the devil is in the details. If anyone ever tries to tell you that their product or service is 100% secure you have my permission to smack them with a large fish (not an actual permission slip). That being said, it …
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted yesterday to propose new rules for security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap market participants. The proposed rules cover recordkeeping, reporting, and notification requirements for security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants and would establish additional recordkeeping requirements for broker-dealers to account for …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former 20-year employee of BP p.l.c. and a senior responder during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill with insider trading in BP securities based on confidential information about the magnitude of the disaster. The price of BP securities fell significantly after the …
Официальный анонс “самсунговской” операционной системы Tizen состоялся еще в январе 2012 года, но производство аппаратов под ее управлением постоянно откладывалось. В итоге, первым коммерческим продуктом на ее основе стали “Умные” часы Samsung Gear 2, анонсированные на выставке MWC 2014. Теперь же Южнокорейский гигант приготовил систему и для смартфонов. Точная дата …